#12 Riley was Dave Strong and Fred Hansford.
Can't remember who the #6AU Mini was, will have to consult the files.
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#12 Riley was Dave Strong and Fred Hansford.
Can't remember who the #6AU Mini was, will have to consult the files.
Now that is an impressive grid, any of a dozen cars could win on the day. Good old Bay Park, look at the crowd and also the people in the pit area.
Hey Amco - check out that orange bonnet and flairs on row 2...
Yeh, Bay Park 1971. Jim Richards is there in the earlier colour scheme for the Sidchrome Imp. Reg Cook on pole. And yes look at the crowd....bet a few of them had a smile on their faces! A great grid though and close ,hard racing.
This is the ex-Peter Levet driven by Mike Boyle at Chamberlain Road Hillclimb.
Mike rallied the Imp as well as using it in hillclimbs and club racing.
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Excuse me Mr. F. in Wellington.....could you please identify the grid for us. I'm sure you can.
Orange bonnet .... row two = Rod Collingwood. Do I see the Barry Phillips Team Cambridge Mini back in the mix - just to the right of the gap through the grid?
Milan - that Imp would have been a terrific car for club level racing.
Those cars always provided some great racing where ever they were.
Here is some great footage from Warwick Farm in 1968, in which the skill shown by the Mini Cooper drivers to hassle the Mustangs is really impressive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyjxtl_pk4Y
Parts 2 and 3 can be viewed on the Warwick Farm Touring Car Race 1968 thread found here: http://www.theroaringseason.com/show...ring-Cars-1968
Here are a couple more photos for this thread.
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A rare shot of Graham Ritter at the wheel of one of the ex works Castrol Imps..... Hume Weir. Graham tells me that he only recalls driving the car once in this configuration. It's the only picture Graham had ever seen of the car painted gold.
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Harry LeFoe leading John Goss at Calder...
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Oh wow, these are beautiful! I love the Ritter version.
AMCO72, Bloody bullies picking on your baby. I think it is Mr Phillips giving Mr Collingwood a telling off, now if that was an Aussie he would just say "it's a contact sport" and nothing would happen about it.
Thats a cool photo Rod!
Rod, I have a slightly different photo to that one, but it doesnt show the impact that your one does. That photo was taken at Baypark and amazingly was the ONLY time the car was damaged in it's 2 year history with Collingwood. Mr Phillips wasn't in the least bit apologetic, and Dave Panckhurst, Rods mechanic and builder of the car, and I had a 'chat' to Barry at the McLaren festival of speed, about that 'incident' but he KNEW NOTHING!!!!! Racing incident, yeh right. Could you do me a favour and F/W that photo to my Email address so I can copy it and put it in the 'history book'....... bentley6@xtra.co.nz
Thanks . Gerald.
Pretty amazing that was the cars only bash Gerald, especially considering those guys drove those things at 100% all day long.
Yep, sure is Steve, those guys gave, nor expected any quarter, and I would say 120% all day. It was fortunate that it was usually out the front, not tangled up in mid field where all the action usually is....[.see the NZ V8's!!!] Rod wrote me a long letter in 1985, describing their antics over the 2 seasons. Among other stuff he says....quote..... the 1971/72 season saw us winning first time out and also being victorious in 18 out of 20 championship heats, with one 2nd and one 3rd to our credit. We won every round on aggregate and scored a maximum of 90 points. The championship in those days could only be won in the open class ie. 4200-6000 cc so we could not be classified as saloon car champs, even though we scored 30 more points than Paul Fahey in 70/71 and 41 more than Rod Coppins in 71/72. That changed the following year but too late for us. The car was only damaged once in all it's racing with us....when Phillips put me into the fence at Baypark and only failed to finish one other race with a blown clutch [non championship race]. In total we won 58 races over 2 years, including heats and non championship races, never finished further back than 3rd and with two DNF's....unquote.....so fairly remarkable, but as I said somewhere else, it wasn't that the car was any faster than the others in the field, just that it finished races by being reliable, a tribute I think to Dave Panckhurst's engineering skills. Actually our chat with Barry was very amicable, like us all he has mellowed with age, and is great that his son, Graeme has purchased his Dads old car, and intends to restore it in the Cambridge colours that it was campaigned in all those years ago.
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Some where we were talking about Jim Richards ,Brian Patrick and Imps ,this is a photo of the Imp they shared in the 1969 Levin Rothmans 4 hour race,with it looks like Jim at the wheel pushing it along there
That Goss Falcon I think must be his Sports Sedan, not his Group C car? Would that be right Greg? Wasn't this built up from an old group C car? I think Australian Muscle Car mag did a feature on this car many years ago. How terrifying would that LeFoe Imp be to drive!
Have been talking to the builders of the Imp re a replica they thought a reconstruction is possible as they have some drawings and good memories, a lot of info was lost in a fire. the comment was a bit of rengineering may make the car less dangerous as it lifted both its front wheels and they would not like to see anyone hurt! 400lb ft 500hp wonderful what a weapon
Where did the engine sit in relation to the rear wheels? Was it in front of them?
in front, look at the airbox engine cover ,Ellis has a great shot on page 3
God that must have been a handful! The air box looks like its inside the car? So did he have to race with the windows wound down?
Hey,
Can anyone provide some contact info on the people running the Sidchrome Imp? We running Imps in the same specs here on the other side of the sphere, and I find his wheels/tires very interesting.
http://www.shag.no/wp-content/upload...63_186x186.jpg
Heres one for Gerald.
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Thanks for that Steve. I have that magazine and have copied the relevant articles and pictures for the 'Album'. By the way, I have got Tony Manns' Email address that 'knutspeed' was asking for regarding the wheels on the Sidchrome Imp, but am a bit hesitant in giving out such details without his permission, and not knowing the identity of the person requesting the info.
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I am hoping Amco 72 ,can add to this one and maybe verify the date and the meeting
Bob, that infamous photo of Barry Phillips punting Rod into the fence at Bay-Park. Was at the Easter meeting in 1972, and was the only time the car was damaged in Rods ownership. There is another post of the incident on here showing the end result. This happened in the first heat, and Ross Johnson lent Rod his car for the second, and he finished 6th. I think he had the Championship wrapped up before this meeting.....at the march Pukekohe event, so the final rounds were academic, but Rod wanted to continue on his winning way. [Source....Donn Anderson. Motorman June 72]
Thanks Gerald ,I had April 2nd 1972 figured ,so thats a big help ,now has anyone got a copy of the Motorman or similar meeting write up and results
AMCO72
re sid chrome Imp owner email
Knutspeed is in norway races imps google him as knutspeed pleasant guy
I raced Imps i UK 87-90 in classic saloon pre 65 racing in UK won the 1200 class and 3rd overall in 89
I had the 875 single carb engine car had to be road legal with WOF couldn't use the 998 and twin carbs then not homologated till 66
my father raced Imps 75-85 ish in special salons first with steel shell car later a Maguire space frame
we had many versions of Imps and minis in the UK all from standard steel shells thru the roof chops semi fibreglass panels to space frame cars with 850 1 litre 1050/1200 Imp motors
Minis the same idea and later some BDA powered minis and Imps
we also had some Minis with Imp motor onto the mini gearbox
we also had mini traveller that raced first version was steel shell the 2nd version was a Maguire mini tube frame version
also when i say Imp we also used the stiletto coupe shape in later days for the space frame cars
Here are some Mini photos you guys may enjoy....
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PDL Mini
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Alan Boyle
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John French
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Allan Boyle and others
Now your talkin', Real race cars, Mini's Mini's everywhere.
I'm not biased though.
Thanks
Ian
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We put this one together in 1984 based on a 998 Hartwell engine and some internals from a CR box found in the basement. Still going strong.